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FIRE SATELLITES
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency-supported satellite ground station has been helping Canadian fire fighters to tackle a spate of large-scale blazes in British Columbia. The
REMSAT unit is driven or flown by helicopter close to a particular fire, establishing a link with satellite cameras, which beam back accurate one-metre resolution images, enabling fire teams to target their work, including the mapping of blaze perimeters.…
SATELLITES
KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Space Agency-supported satellite ground station has been helping Canadian fire fighters to tackle a spate of large-scale blazes in British Columbia. The
REMSAT unit is driven or flown by helicopter close to a particular fire, establishing a link with satellite cameras, which beam back accurate one-metre resolution images, enabling fire teams to target their work, including the mapping of blaze perimeters.…
ESA PROJECTS
BY JONATHAN THOMSON AND KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Space Agency is embarking of the development of a raft of new challenging projects, all of which are open to British involvement, notably a mission to Mercury – which could use the services of the University of Leicester Space Instrumentation Group.…
3D IMAGING
BY KEITH NUTHALL
STUDIES into helping governments verify nuclear non-proliferation treaties have led the EU’s Joint Research Centre to develop new technology, which allows the creation of three-dimensional images of high clarity and accuracy. A spin-off company 3D Veritas, based in Sesto Calende, northern Italy, uses software which enables the speedy production of photo-realistic 3D models of the interior and exterior of buildings and other large objects.…
SMALL BUSINESS ILLITERACY
BY DERIDRE MASON
MANY health and safety leaflets are going over their targets’ heads because the reading age needed to understand them is too high, delegates at the recent Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents health at work conference at the National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, heard.…
TOBACCO DIRECTIVE DEAL
BY KEITH NUTHALL
CIGARETTE packets sold in the European Union could be graced with gory medical images designed to shock smokers into quitting, as a result of a compromise deal struck between the EU Council of Ministers and the European Parliament over the final form of the new European tobacco directive.…
PRODUCT REVIEW
BY MONICA DOBIE
International Chamber of Commerce
Anti-Counterfeiting Technology Guide
Pluses: The catalogue is a well-written comprehensive guide, which offers a general overview of technologies. It offers a thorough listing of manufacturing and suppliers of the products.
Minuses: Smaller companies may feel left out because much of the equipment would be better suited for the needs of large brand-owning companies with big budgets.…
BOLTON PIECE - PRINT VERSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?
Let me make it easy for you.
Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…
BOLTON PIECE - PRINT VERSION
BY MONICA DOBIE
THE LOCAL Council – what are the worst images conjured up when thinking of those words?
Let me make it easy for you.
Lazy employees that take forever to process requests, generally unhelpful and bored, unfulfilling positions that can transform a new recruit full of fresh ideas and faith in the system, to the jaded staff that many of us have encountered at our local councils.…